NAVYPEDIA

Ships

Name	No	Yard No	Builder	Laid down	Launched	Comp	Fate
Endymion			John Randall, Rotherhithe	11.1795	29.3.1797	4.1797	receiving ship 1859
Severn (ex-Tagus)			Wigram, Wells & Green, Blackwall	1.1813	14.6.1813	11.9.1813	sold 7.1825
Liffey (ex-Eridanus)			Wigram, Wells & Green, Blackwall	2.1813	25.9.1813	10.6.1814	BU 7.1827
Liverpool			Wigram, Wells & Green, Blackwall	5.1813	21.2.1814	30.6.1814	sold 4.1822
Glasgow			Wigram, Wells & Green, Blackwall	5.1813	21.2.1814	26.8.1814	BU 1.1829
Forth			Wigram, Wells & Green, Blackwall	2.1813	14.6.1813	7.9.1813	BU 10.1819

Technical data

Displacement normal, t	1239bm
Displacement full, t
Length, m	48.5 gundeck
Breadth, m	12.8
Draught, m	3.76 hold depth
No of shafts
Machinery	sails
Power, h. p.
Max speed, kts
Fuel, t
Endurance, nm(kts)
Armament	Endymion: 18 x 1 - 159/8 32pdr SBML carronades, 26 x 1 - 148/18 24pdr SBML, 2 x 1 - 107/14 9pdr SBML others: 20 x 1 - 159/8 32pdr SBML carronades, 28 x 1 - 148/18 24pdr SBML, 2 x 1 - 107/14 9pdr SBML
Complement	350

Project history

40-guns 24pdr frigates (5th rate), reclassified as 50-gun 4th rate in 1817. Copied from design of French La Pomone, taken in 1794. Prototype was built of oak but 18 years later the design was revived for five frigates built of fir to meet the urgent requirement for 24pdr frigates.

Modernizations

None.

Naval service

No significant events.